{"id":4034,"date":"2021-08-13T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/buffalo\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:41:50","slug":"faculty-workload-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/buffalo\/2021\/08\/13\/faculty-workload-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Workload Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Faculty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UUP would like to know if you have experienced an increased or unreasonable workload. The recent and ongoing Covid pandemic has encouraged an enormous shift to online teaching for virtually every faculty member. As of this writing, the University is planning on an \u201cin person\u201d semester for the Fall, and a return to physical classroom teaching. Yet, as we haltingly go back to more \u201cnormal\u201d teaching arrangements, it seems unlikely that anything will be exactly the same as it once was. More importantly, there are several indications about increasing class sizes and workloads in higher education, underwritten at least in part by the faculty\u2019s familiarity with an online teaching environment. We want to know if you have experienced any of these issues and want to work with you about how to address them, especially as you embark on potential online or hybrid delivery. Please let us know here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/N8N9pB4uxzbxZxf3A\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/N8N9pB4uxzbxZxf3A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Dimick<br>Vice President for Academics<br>UUP Buffalo Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Faculty: The UUP would like to know if you have experienced an increased or unreasonable workload. The recent and ongoing Covid pandemic has encouraged an enormous shift to online teaching for virtually every faculty member. As of this writing, the University is planning on an \u201cin person\u201d semester for the Fall, and a return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,152],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-work-load"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Faculty Workload Inquiry - UUP Buffalo Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/buffalo\/2021\/08\/13\/faculty-workload-inquiry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faculty Workload Inquiry - UUP Buffalo Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Faculty: The UUP would like to know if you have experienced an increased or unreasonable workload. 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